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Diodorus Siculus

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Diodorus Siculus , d. after 21 BC, Sicilian historian. He wrote, in Greek, a world history in 40 books, ending with Caesar's Gallic Wars. Fully preserved are Books I–V and XI–XX, which cover Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Scythian, Arabian, and North African history and parts of Greek and Roman history. The history, which is a compilation of other sources, is often repetitive and contradictory. Historians generally regard it as uncritical and unreliable. It is valuable, however, as a source for the lost works of earlier authors, from whom he borrowed freely, and for his chronological lists of prominent figures from the 5th cent. to 302 BC

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Diodorus Siculus

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Diodorus Siculus. Sicilian-born classical historian (1st cent. BC), often cited for his commentaries on the Celts, especially the northern Gauls. His Bibliotheca Historica [Library of History] was a universal history, beginning with the earliest mythological times and running to the contemporary conquest of Gaul; of forty books thought to have been written, ten survive.

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See The Library of History, ed. and trans. C. H. Oldfather (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1935)

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Diodorus Siculus

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Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian of the latter half of the 1st cent. bc. The surviving portion of his history of the world was translated into Latin by Poggio. Skelton produced a translation into English, and there are references to it in D. Lindsay, Kirke, Milton, and even W. Morris.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Diodorus Siculus." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Diodorus Siculus." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-DiodorusSiculus.html

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